29 | November | 2016 | Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF)

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Daily Archives: November 29, 2016

News, entertainment violating ethics must be stopped: minister

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Tells NA advisories sent to all channels by Pemra to check this practice; movers of calling attention notice suggest dramas should unite families instead of dividing them ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb Monday said any news or entertainment content violating societal norms and ethics should be stopped and the Pakistan […]


Help on the way for women victims of cybercrime

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ISLAMABAD: Women find themselves particularly vulnerable in the increasing cybercrime, a conference on ending online violence against women was informed on Monday. BBC journalist Shumaila Jaffery told the conference that 45pc of the 3,000 cyber crimes reported by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) related to harassment of women. “Honour turns to murder in digital spaces,” […]


SC asks news channel to file amended apology stating news was false, fabricated

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ISLAMABAD: Justice Mian Saqib Nisar of Supreme Court Monday said the judiciary also respected the media but it should not be maligned as it was also one of the pillars of the state. The observation came during the hearing of a suo moto case against the management of a private news channel for airing false […]


Former police commander faces charges for assaulting journalist

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Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Ruhakana Rugunda, Prime Minister of Uganda welcomed the charges brought against the former police commander of Kampala District, Joram Mwesigye for assaulting a Wavah Broadcasting Services (WBS) TV journalist, Andrew Lwanga. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter urged the government of Uganda to serve […]


Two television channels suspended by state regulator

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Pakistan Electronic Media and Regulatory Authority (Pemra), the broadcast media regulatory body, has suspended and imposed fines on two television channels and fined another channel for slandering the superior judiciary of Pakistan.   Pemra had issued show cause notices to Neo News, Din News and Sach TV on November 19, 2016 and asked to submit […]


Ex-GM of PTV dies

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KARACHI: Former general manager of PTV Karachi centre and author Burhanuddin Hasan passed away here on Sunday. He was 86. He leaves behind his wife, a son and two daughters. Mr Hasan was born in 1930 in the princely state of Rampur, India. After partition, his family shifted to Lahore. He did his graduation from […]


38 Chamba House workers probed in Samia’s death case

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LAHORE: Police claimed on Monday to have investigated 38 employees of the Federal Lodges called Chamba House in a PML-N female worker’s death case while an investigator hinted at drug overuse to be the cause of her death. Samia Chaudhry, 35, a resident of Islamabad, was found dead in a room of the lodges by […]